Silvano Frei was born in 1996 in Flawil (SG). He studied cultural studies with a focus on philosophy at the University of Lucerne. In his master's thesis, he focused on the European Décadence as a central intellectual-historical topos of cultural and aesthetic modernity.
With the start-up scholarship of the University of Lucerne (since 1.10.2023) he prepares his PhD project.